Gloria Campaner is a laureate of international competitions such as the Paderewski International Piano Competition in Los Angeles (Silver Medal, Best Paderewski and Chopin performances), the Ibla Grand Prize (First Prize, Prokofiev Special Award), the XI Concours International de Musique du Maroc in Casablanca (Prix de Jury, Franz Liszt), and the Cultural Foundation Pro Europa in Freiburg (European Prize for Culture).

In the years 2011-12 she was nominated ‘Ambassador of Culture’ from the EU for the project ‘Piano: reflet de la culture européenne’ , she was awarded a scholarship from the Johannes Brahms Foundation in Baden – Baden and had been the first Italian female pianist ever awarded a fellowship by the London’s Borletti – Buitoni Trust (2014).

Her training is rooted in the best international pedagogical traditions through Bruno Mezzena, Konstantin Bogino, and Fany Solter with whom she gained her ‘konzert -examen- Diplom ‘at the HFM of Karlsruhe in Germany. Gloria has also been selected to participate in masterclasses by Jerome Rose, Sergio Perticaroli, Pavel Gililov, Lilya Zilberstein, Dmitri Bashkirov, and Boris Petrushansky.

After her Carnegie Hall débuts in 2010, Gloria’s music making has gained a recognized world-wide status. Recent highlights include tours in all the continents: Europe, China, Japan, South Africa, Armenia, Lebanon, USA, Israel, Latin America, India, Easter Island, and even Myanmar where she performed for a charity event in one of the first public concert after the end of the national dictatorship.

Gloria’s charismatic musicianship and devotion for chamber music has created numerous artistic collaborations across the globe with musicians such as Johannes Moser, Ivry Gitlis, Ana Chumachenco, Michael Kugel, Sergei Krylov, Quartetto di Cremona, Azahar Ensemble, Borusan Quartet, Angela Hewitt to name a few and as well as with principal soloists of most prestigious orchestras (Berliner Philharmonic , La Scala Philharmony, National Orchestra of Santa Cecilia in Roma, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, Seattle Symphony Orchestra and Metropolitan Opera of New York).

She’s been resident artist at the West Cork Chamber Music Festival (Ireland) and at the Marlboro Festival (Vermont USA – in 2017 and 2019) where she works alongside with pianists such as Leon Fleisher and Mitsuko Uchida.

Beginning from a high school rock band, Gloria Campaner has explored new artistic horizons resulting in exciting collaborations with world-renowned jazz pianists Franco D’Andrea, Stefano Bollani, Leszek Możdżer and with the exhilarating music comedians Igudesman & Joo. Furthermore, her affinity for dance, led her to work with Dutch choreographer Joost Vrouenraets and the Gotra Ballet in the Netherlands and in Rome Teatro Olimpico for the world première of the shows ‘Heroes Quest’ and ‘Program HQ’.

Widely present in the multi-media world and its artistic expressions, Gloria’s concerts are often accompanied by works of very refined visual artists and broadcast in national public radios and televisions (RAI, BBC, SKY, CNN, RSI, ClassicFM). A full documentary about her was released in 2013 by RAI5 for the TV program ‘Petruska ‘ and she was one of the protagonists of the art documentary for SKY Arte “The Heart of Stone”, directed by Luca Scarzella, inspired by compositions of Scrjabin and dedicated to the ‘sounding stones’ of the great sardinian artist Pinuccio Sciola from whom she directly learned how to play his ‘singing sculptures’ . She is also committed to artistic collaborations in the fields of classical/electronic fusion, and with contemporary composer such as Wolfgang Rhim, Jörg Widmann, Rodion Schedrin and Giya Kantcheli. Recent premières include new works dedicated to her by Márton Illés, Marcello Abbado, Vittorio Montalti and Giovanni Sollima.

In September 2014, she was the first classical music DJ to collaborate with speaker and webcaster Alessio Bertallot in Milan – playing records of great classical music for millions of followers who heard this music for the first time. In 2016, together with DJ and producer Francesco Leali and poli-instrumentalist Alessandro Branca she founded the electronic group OPUS3000 with whom she released a new LP called ‘ Benevolence’ in 2017. In that same year their project won the national SIAE award of ‘première works’ in Italy.

Gloria’s debut CD “Piano Poems” of solo piano works by Schumann and Rachmaninov was released in 2013 (EMI). An orchestral CD was published in 2016 by Warner Classics containing her live concert debut with RAI National Orchestra & Juraj Valčuha and the Second Piano Concerto of Rachmaninoff, and for the same label the latest album “HOME” released in November 2018 recorded with the Filarmonica della Fenice conducted by John Axelrod at Gran Teatro La Fenice of Venice, dedicated to her favorite composer Robert Schumann: Kinderszenen op. 15 and Piano Concerto op. 54.

Recent and future highlights include collaborations with RTSI Orchestra in Lugano, English Chamber Orchestra, Baden-Baden Philharmony, Süd-Deutsche Philharmonie, Seoul Philharmony, AfiA Orchestra of Tokyo, Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra… together with appearances in most prestigious venues of the world such as London’s Cadogan Hall, Los Angeles Philharmony, Salzburg Mozarteum, NCPA Beijing, Kioi Hall Tokyo, Paris Salle Cortot, Warsaw & Krakow Philharmony, Vilnius Philharmonie, Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome, and many others. This present season gave her other new challenging collaborations: with visual artist Natan Sinigaglia and his instant graphic design system video installations for the world premiere show ‘Mousike’ commissioned by the Quartetto Society of Milan ; with one of most recognized Italian actors Luigi Lo Cascio for the Verona’s Festival della Bellezza and with movie director Philippe Caland as pianist and actress in his indipendent movie ‘the Butterfly Confirmation’ ( Los Angeles, 2017).

The “Dafne” project, on tour in March 2019, dedicated to the theme of feminicide and violence against women, is on its way to next production, together with the English violinist Tamsin Waley-Cohen and the Accademia d’Archi Arrigoni conducted by Domenico Mason. The project includes the piece DAFNE dedicated to Gloria Campaner, composed by Mario Pagotto.

In Italy she’s a regular guest in the main Festivals and Concert Institutions of the country and she had been invited to perform at the International Women’s Day by the President of Republic Giorgio Napolitano on worldwide TV streaming and broadcast.

Gloria is also a very passionate lecturer around the world, regularly offering music courses and piano masterclasses for international Universities (Columbia University in New York City, University of Cape Town, Nelson Mandela University of Port Elizabeth, Tokyo Music College, Stockholm Royal Academy, Beijing International Music Academy, University of Maastricht , UniRio (Brazil), Mimar Sinan University (Instanbul), and AAF Academy in Mexico City). In 2019 she also founded her own educational project named C# – See Sharp: a creativity workshop for young musicians and performing artists.

Sharing emotions and positive energy through music has always been a fundamental goal in Gloria’s art, and she is deeply involved in charity, social and music-awareness projects around the world. On her international tours she takes time to meet students and children, visit hospitals, schools and orphanages, disadvantaged communities, townships and favelas.

In Italy Gloria is part of the ‘Donatori di Musica’ which brings classical music to terminally-ill patients in oncological hospitals, she’s supporting the children of Cometa foundation (Como) and she’s also passionately supporting ‘Musica con le Ali’ scouting the new musical talents of the country.

In 2018 Gloria Campaner was nominated artistic director of the concert series of the Associazione Vincenzo Bellini in Messina and she was appointed piano professor at the Nelson Mandela University of Port Elizabeth ( South Africa).

Described as “an invaluable new-music advocate and a preferred collaborator of composers like Pierre Boulez and Esa-Pekka Salonen” [The New York Times], Grammy and Emmy Award-winning pianist GLORIA CHENG has long been devoted to creative collaboration with composers of our time.
As a recitalist, she has performed at the Ojai Music Festival (where she began her association with Pierre Boulez in 1984), Chicago Humanities Festival, William Kapell Festival, Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music, and annually on the Los Angeles-based Piano Spheres series. She has premiered countless works that include John Williams’ Prelude and Scherzo for Piano and Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen's Dichotomie (of which she is the dedicatee), John Adams' Hallelujah Junction for two pianos (written for her and Grant Gershon), and Steven Stucky's Piano Sonata. Partnering with composers in duo-recitals, she premiered Thomas Adès's 2-piano Concert Paraphrase on Powder Her Face and Terry Riley's Cheng Tiger Growl Roar.
She has appeared as a soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under the direction of Zubin Mehta, and at the personal invitation of Boulez, performing Olivier Messiaen's Oiseaux exotiques with him on the orchestra’s historic final concerts in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Other concerto appearances have brought her to the Louisville and Shanghai Orchestras; Indianapolis, Albanay, Pasadena, Pacific Symphonies. In June, 2021, she performed the world* and European** premieres of John Williams’ Prelude* and Scherzo** for Piano and Orchestra in Barcelona’s Palau de la Musica with the Orquesta Sinfónica del Vallès under Marc Timón.

In her home base of Los Angeles, she has been a principal artist with the Piano Spheres series, Jacaranda Music, Monday Evening Concerts, and on the L.A. Philharmonic's Green Umbrella series in Elliott Carter's Double Concerto for Piano and Harpsichord conducted by Oliver Knussen, and John Cage's Concerto for Prepared Piano with Jeffrey Milarsky.
Winner of the Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without orchestra) GRAMMY for her 2008 recording, Piano Music of Salonen, Stucky, and Lutosławski, she was nominated a second time in 2013 for The Edge of Light: Messiaen/Saariaho. Her film project, MONTAGE: Great Film Composers and the Piano — documenting six composers: Bruce Broughton, Don Davis, Alexandre Desplat, Michael Giacchino, Randy Newman, and John Williams as she recorded the works they’d written for her — won numerous festival awards and aired on PBS SoCal, subsequently capturing the 2018 Los Angeles Area Emmy Award for Independent Programming.
Garlands for Steven Stucky is her 2018 star-studded CD tribute to the late composer by 32 of his friends and former students. Proceeds support the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Steven Stucky Composer Fellowship Fund, which engages young composers in multi-year educational programs with the orchestra.
A native of New Jersey, her formative studies were under the tutelage of Isabelle Sant'Ambrogio. Prior to embarking on her musical career, she earned a Bachelor's degree in Economics from Stanford University. Her decision to pursue the piano led to a Woolley Scholarship for study in Paris and degrees in performance from UCLA and University of Southern California, where her teachers included Aube Tzerko and John Perry.

She is currently on the faculty of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music where she has created classes and programs that unite performers, composers, and scholars. She is often invited to speak as an advocate for contemporary music and in 2012 served as Regents Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley.

Wojciech Świtała is a graduate of the Academy of Music in Katowice, Poland in the class of Prof. Józef Stompel. In 1991–1996 he perfected his piano skills under the supervision of Karl-Heinz Kämmerling, André Dumortier and Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden.

He is a laureate of the International Piano Competitions in Paris (Marguerite Long and Jacques Thibaud Competition) and Montreal. He was the best Polish participant in the 12th International Piano Competition Fryderyk Chopin in Warsaw in 1990. It was then that he received the award for the best performance of a polonaise and a number of extra-statutory prizes.

He has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in most European countries, North and South America, Asia and Australia. He has performed with most Polish symphony orchestras, the Aukso Orchestra, Silesian Quartet, Camerata Quartet, Royal String Quartet, as well as violinists Szymon Krzeszowiec, Piotr Pławner and soprano Ewa Iżykowska.

He has recorded several albums for the following labels: Polskie Nagrania, Bearton, DUX, Sony Music Polska, IMC and Chandos with music by Bacewicz, Brahms, Chopin, Debussy, Liszt, Schumann, Szymanowski and Zarębski.

In 2000 and 2005, his albums were awarded the Grand Prix du Disque Frédéric Chopin. In 2002, 2009 and 2019 he was honored with the "Fryderyk" award.

Since 1998, the pianist has also been working as a teacher. He is a professor in the Piano Department at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice.

In the years 2008-12 he was additionally vice-rector for science and didactics, and in the years 2012-16 he was the head of the Piano Department at this University. Since 2020, he is also a professor at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw.

Juror of international piano competitions: Marguerite Long and Jacques Thibaud in Paris (2009), Fryderyk Chopin in Warsaw (2015, 2021), Arthur Rubinstein in Beijing (2016), Vladimir Horowitz in Kiev (2016, 2019), Ignacy Jan Paderewski in Bydgoszcz (2010, 2013), as well as many others (Australia, Bulgaria, France, Japan, Singapore, Italy, USA). He regularly conducts piano courses in Poland and abroad (China, Japan, Germany, USA). Originator and the main organizer (until 2017) of the International Piano Courses in Katowice. In 2014, he was appointed to the Program Council of the National Fryderyk Chopin Institute. From December 2021, a member of the board of the Frederic Chopin Society in Warsaw.

Hungarian pianist Peter Toth has concertized in many countries in Europe, including Hungary, Serbia, Poland, Austria, Slovakia, Germany, Russia, France, Holland, Spain, Italy, and Switzerland. In addition, he performed in Japan, South Korea, Peru, Costa Rica, China, Australia, and the United States.
As a competitor, Dr. Toth has won top prizes at numerous piano competitions, such as the American Paderewski Piano Competition (2013), the Franz Liszt International Piano and Voice Competition in Los Angeles (2010), and the Franz Liszt International Piano Competitions in Budapest (2001) and Weimar (2000). His first released CD recording won the Grand Prize of the Hungarian Liszt Society (2006).
In 2015, Dr. Toth earned his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in piano performance at the University of Texas at Austin. His scholarly activities have included the investigation of the progressive harmonic language of Franz Liszt’s piano music. His article, “Symmetrical Pitch Constructions in Liszt’s Piano Music”, was published in the Spring of 2016.
In 2017, Dr. Toth joined the music faculty of Fairleigh Dickinson University (Madison, New Jersey). He was also a music faculty member at Rutgers University (New Brunswick, New Jersey) between 2016 and 2019. His students have garnered top prizes at various piano competitions.
He has been member of the American Franz Liszt Society since 2011.

Pianist and internationally acclaimed piano educator ADAM WIBROWSKI studied with professors Halina Czerny-Stefanska and her husband Ludwik Stefanski at Cracow Academy of Music where he received his Masters Degree in piano performance. Later, Dr. Wibrowski followed his studies at Doctorate 3 Cycle at Sorbonne, Paris. His piano awards include: 1st Prize at the National Chopin Competition in Poland, Diploma de Honor at Maria Canals International Piano Competition in Barcelona, Spain, and the First Prize at the Union Francaise des Artistes Musiciens, France. Mr. Wibrowski received also the MTNA Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music and Music Studies (USA). He has taught successively at Grenoble Conservatory, France, University of Southern California, USA, European Virtuosity Class, Netherlands, Katowice Superior Academy of Music, Poland, and Paris Conservatory, France, the latter continuously since 2000.
Mr. Wibrowski has taught master classes at major Universities and Conservatories in the USA (UCLA, Yale, Rice), Canada (McGill, U.B.C., Concordia), Australia, Japan, Vietnam, Italy, and China. He is also the founder and Artistic Director of Chopin Festival at Nohant, France; European Music Sessions, Netherlands; Liszt Piano Festival, Hungary and Austria Piano Summer, Vienna-Wiener Neustadt, and recently of Polish Music Piano Competition in Hamburg, Germany. Dr. Wibrowski is the President of Chopin Association in Nohant, France; Member of the Paderewski Association, Switzerland; Member of the Board of Directors of the Paderewski Music Society in Los Angeles; and the Director of the Program of the European Union Culture Commission: "Piano-European Cultures"

Wojciech Kocyan was praised for his “highly distinctive performances (…) superb, intelligent artistry (…)” (.Classics Today.com) and “incisive temperament, impeccable technique and sumptuous tone” (Le Monde de la Musique.)

"Genius" Gramophome magazine

Dr. Kocyan is a Clinical Professor of Piano at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.

He studied with two of the world’s most esteemed piano pedagogues: Andrzej Jasinski in Poland, where he received his Masters Degree and with John Perry at the University of Southern California, where he received a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree.

He is a laureate of several international piano competitions, including F.Busoni, Wideman and Viotti, as well as a special prizes winner of the XI International Chopin Competition and a First Prize winner of the Paderewski Piano Competition in Poland. He performed in Europe, America, Mexico, Australia and Japan, participating in music festivals such as Musica Antiqua Europae Orientalis, Capri Festival, Bydgoszcz International Music Festival, H.M.Gorecki Festival, Beethovenfest, Paderewski Festival, Liszt Festival in Vienna, San Francisco Liszt Festival, Cervantino International Music Festival, Morelia International Music Festival and the Chopin Festival in Paris.He has recorded for television, radio and film and his performances were broadcast in Europe, United States and Australia. His solo and chamber music recordings can also be found on DUX, Naxos and Spotify
In 2007 the Gramophone magazine, published in London and considered the world’s most prestigious classical music journal, chose Mr. Kocyan’s recording of Prokofiev, Scriabin and Rachmaninoff as one of 50 best classical recordings ever made, alongside recordings of such luminaries as Leonard Bernstein, Dietrich Fisher-Dieskau, Nicolaus Harnoncourt and Arthur Rubinstein.

Dr. Kocyan is also active as an adjudicator, lecturer, scholar and arts administrator. Besides numerous California competitions of all levels, including many state-wide competitions, he repeatedly judged the MTNA Performance Competition at the State and Division levels, the American International Paderewski Piano Competition, Czerny-Stefanska International Piano Competition, Guitar Foundation of America International Artist Competition, International Peninsula Festival in Los Angeles and Schimmel- Arizona Youth Piano Competition. He has given masterclasses and lectures in France, Hungary, Austria, Poland, Serbia, Mexico and United States, including such prestigious venues as the Colburn School in Los Angeles, the Chopin University in Warsaw and the Szymanowski Academy in Katowice, Poland. He twice presented lectures and masterclasses at the World Piano Pedagogy Conference. In 2015 and 2019 he presented lectures and masterclasses at the World Piano Conference in Serbia and was appointed the judge of the annual World Piano Competition.

In October 2017 he was one of five eminent international speakers invited to present a lecture at the international musicological conference “ Competition or music put to the test”, organized by the Chopin Institute in Warsaw in conjunction with the 17th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition. His paper on the evolution of the performance style in the history of the Chopin International Piano Competition in Warsaw was included in the inaugural issue of the “Chopin Review”, a leading publication in Chopin scholarship, published by the National Chopin Institute in Warsaw, Poland. In 2018 he was a presenter at the Music Teachers Association National Conference in Orlando, Florida and was invited to present at the Music Teachers Association National Conference in 2022 as well.

Dr. Kocyan serves as the Artistic Director and President of the Paderewski Music Society in Los Angeles and the Director of the American International Paderewski Piano Competition in Los Angeles. He is also the past President of the California Association of Professional Music Teachers, Santa Monica/South Bay Chapter , current President of the West Los Angeles Branch of the Music Teachers Association of California, is a voting member of the Polish Academy of Recording Arts and serves on the boards of several other cultural organizations.